[Crypto AI startup Pond completes $7.5 million seed round] Golden Finance reported that Pond, a crypto startup building a decentralized AI model layer, raised $7.5 million in a seed round led by Archetype. Other investors include Cyber Fund, Delphi Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Near Foundation, and several angel investors, such as Near Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin, Plume Network CEO and co-founder Chris Yin, Matrixport founding partner and COO Cynthia Wu, and Flashbots market research director Tesa Ho. It is reported that Pond currently supports applications in the fields of security, recommendation, and DeFi. Pond plans to expand its crypto AI use cases, including DeFi risk management, insider trading detection, and personalized recommendations.